CRASSH | The Charnia fossil

Emily Mitchell, Curator of Invertebrates at the Museum of Zoology and co-director of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, shares a cast of a 500 million-year-old Charnia fossil. The fossil was first found by schoolchildren in Leicestershire in the 1950s and Emily explains how it transformed our understanding of evolution.
Emily also explains how the science behind her work contributes not only to current efforts to preserve our marine ecosystems but also to the search for exoplanetary life elsewhere in the universe.
Links:
www.deeptimeecology.org
www.deeptimeecology.org/ediacaran-fossils
sketchfab.com/3d-models/charn...
About the Library:
The Library of the Great Silence is a unique research facility founded by the San Francisco conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats and dedicated to examining existential risks of the present, and to facilitating discussion about future flourishing, by investigating societal transformations from the past.
Instead of shelving books, the Library collects objects, each of which is open to interpretation by everyone. Objects are chosen based on their pivotal significance. Examples include stone tools, coins, and silicon microchips.
For the Cambridge Festival 2023, a Cambridge branch of the Library exhibited crowd-sourced objects at the Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge.
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Always nice to hear about the Chronicle of Charnia